Home School groups in the US now have access to Esri’s ArcGIS Online Subscriptions for K-12 at no charge!

Visit http://connected.esri.com to learn how incorporating Geographic Information System (GIS) technology into home school curriculum and activities will introduce your student to 21st century mapping and analytical technology used by millions of governments and business organizations around the world.

This e-book is written for teens – and their parents, mentors, and advisers – as an in-depth learning course on job readiness, workplace success, career exploration, and career planning. It is free for homeschools and parents. All necessary instructions and resources are included.

Included are Math, English, Science, and History for grades 1-12 plus College Prep. courses for the HSEE, GED, SAT, ACT, ASVAB, etc. Students succeed by select resources that meet their individual learning styles.

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With this in-depth, real-life wake-up call, teens will create a detailed scenario of their successful, independent adult life and discover in detail who they are and how they can make a real contribution to the world. They’ll see vividly the value of education, they’ll learn the real cost of adult life, and how much they’ll need to earn. They discover the importance of taking responsibility for their choices, owning their future, and growing up. Everything is FREE, online, and passwords never expire.

ReadingTeacher.com uses interactive, animated videos to teach children how to read using synthetic phonics. The program includes step-by-step lessons and resources to help you teach the phonemes.

www.etap.org provides tutorial with interactive books and videos. Included are Math, English, Science, and History for grades 1-12 plus College Prep. courses for the HSEE, GED, SAT, ACT, ASVAB, etc. Students succeed by select resources that meet their individual learning styles

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www.mathinee.com provides a database of original problems and theory targeted at preparing for mathematical competitions AMC-8, AMC-10, AMC-12, AIME, Math Kangaroo. Problems have full solutions. The database is searchable by grade level, topic, contest, exam and difficulty level.

Get free lessons and bi-weekly modules and resources, emailed to you, to help you prepare your homeschool teens for LIFE. Plus, you’ll get two additional free programs as a bonus. Free user accounts keep track of which problems were solved and of the student's progress.

Free Guide to the Writing of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Veteran science fiction author Jeffrey A. Carver has distilled years of teaching experience into a FREE online course, Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy. The self-paced course covers all the fundamentals of storytelling, from world building to the creation of believable characters to plot and conflict to rewriting.

Homeschool Share (HSS) is a on-line cooperative effort of several homeschooling moms to provide FREE but quality literature-based unit studies and resources. There are literally hundreds of unit studies, many with lapbooks and/or notebooking pages, that are all free for the printing. No registration required. There are units available for toddler/preschool age to about 6th or 7th grade.

K-4 faith/science lessons are available to all for free downloading at www.creationlens.org, Pre-K and new K-4 faith/science lessons in both Christian and Catholic versions will be added in December and January. FREE faith/science teaching modules which are teacher-friendly, practical, and provide excellence in faith and science instruction.

Considered the most significant collection of Bay Area art in the world, di Rosa provides opportunities for creative enrichment and enjoyment of art and the environment year-round. The di Rosa houses approximately 2,000 works of art by more than 800 artists.

di Rosa offers FREE discussion-based, interactive tours led by experienced guides and docents are available to homeschool groups. Students develop their critical thinking skills through active conversations and activities centered on observation and analysis of the art and natural surroundings. Each tour will be tailored to your students' ages and abilities.
Wednesday - Thursday -10:15 am only
All tours are 1.5 hours and can include sketching activity.
Advance reservations are required:707.226.5991 x 25 or tours@dirosaart.org.

America's Heritage: An Adventure in Liberty is a curriculum project designed and written by teachers with AHEF and HISD and is available in Texas and National Editions with correlating standards and objectives. The initial phase of the project included development of material designed for middle school students, published in 1996. The curriculum was later expanded to include lessons for K-12 and was published as a first complete edition in the spring of 2001. It is available free of charge as a download, in hard binder format, or in CD format via mail.

The EXPLORING THE WORLD, DISCOVERING GOD project for Grades 5 to 8 offers you a unique FREE opportunity.

We can give you the golden opportunity to PILOT TEACH Faith/Science lessons this coming year. These lessons will enable you to enhance your teaching ability to interface subjects. We will give you FREE access to our Grade 5-8 Faith/Science lessons via our website beginning in August, 2010. To get this FREE Pilot Teaching opportunity contact Evelyn Tucker, Project Manager at Evelyntucker@archstl.org as soon as possible.

Created by the Grain Foods Foundation to help increase awareness of the growing hunger problem in America, last year the Bread Art Project raised over $25,000 for Feeding America. And this year, the Grain Foods Foundation expects to raise even more for Share Our Strength,the leading national organization working to end childhood hunger in America.

Science for Kids Intended as a 37-week full school year course, this is an introductory science homeschool curriculum that will cover biology, human anatomy, physics, and astronomy.
FREE faith/science lessons in Catholic and Christian Formats for Grades Pre-K to Grade 8. Free download http://www.creationlens.org/lernmat.html